On Tuesday, August 15, 2000 at 4:06 PM or thereabouts, Nick Danger
wrote the following about Memo Field - Ideas for better
implementation.:
C>> because it was too difficult to "flag" a message that had a memo
C>> using the current memo column implementation without eating up a
C>> lot of screen space.
ND> I've come up with a bit of a work around for this Chuck. I set my
ND> column width for the memo at 6, and then use an exclamation "!" as
ND> the first character in any memo I write. That leaves just enough
ND> room for a "!" to show up for any message with a memo attached,
ND> yet hardly uses any real estate.
Indeed, and I have done this, but I found myself wanting quicker
access to the info contained in the memo ... that's why I found your
suggestion of having it automatically pop-up as an on-top window so
appealing. When I see that something has a memo, I resent that extra
step of having to dig for it.
I'm trying to remember ... I think Pegasus had a similar thing to the
memo, calling it an "annotation" ... there, though, it was signified
by a "dot" next to the message and if I remember correctly the
annotation would pop up as a separate memo window with a key
combination ... closer to what I'd like, but not quite.
Chuck
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